Ticket-cutter



l. D. GIBBS.

TICKET CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILI-:D MAR. 3. I9I9.

1,326,152. Patented Deo. 23,1919.

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JAMES D. GIBBS, F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR T0 GIBBS-INMAN COMPANY, 0F

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

TICKET-CUTTER.

Be it known that I, JAMES D. GIBBs, a

4.citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ticket-Cutters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates primarily to the class of railroad tickets known as conductors cash fare receipts and more especially to the form of receipt having figures representing dollars and cents arranged in contiguous columns and having the paper scored'or slotted between the columns as set forth in the accompanying drawing, which fully illustrates my invention both in its normal position upon the tickets and removed from the same.

Heretofore it has been the practice to attach a straight-edge to the end of a flexible cover forming a part of the binding of the tickets, and this straight-edge was designed to be manipulated by bending thecover and moving the cutting edge thereof to the desired position upon the face of the ticket; but this method has proved tedious and unsatisfactory.

Another plan has been to use a straightedge of metal or other hard substance, holding it in position by means of a rubber band, which method, however, has been found impracticable or undesirable for the reason that the bands cannot be relied upon to hold the straight-edge in the approved position and, furthermore, the unavoidable friction of the bands against the sides of the book makes it necessary to constantly replace them.

These objections are obviated by the use of my invention. In the drawing Figure l is a plan view of the sliding cutter in normal position upon the ticket book. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cutter complete, removed from the tickets. Fig. 3 is a side view of the cutter attached to a book of tickets, and Fig. 4f is a ticket after having been severed `to represent a given fare.

My invention consists of two trips of sheet metal or other hard substance, which I describe as the upper or primary slide A, the lower, or secondary slide B and the connecting wires or springs c, c.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 3, 1919.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Serial No. 280.382.

In order to maintain a proper position of the cutter upon the ticket book I bend at right angles downwardly the ends d. d. of the upper slide and upwardly the ends c. e. of the lower slide, and since it is desirable that the inner surfaces of the sliding cutters and guides be smooth and adapted to slide freely upon the ticket I raise upon the outer surfaces small housings, f. f. f. f. adapted to receive the ends of the connecting wires c. c., although obviously the same effect may be secured by other means.

Preferably I use wire of suitable spring quality for the means of connecting the two slides; however, other means may be employed. By the use of spring wire, a yielding pressure is imparted to the upper slide,

' also secures greater accuracy of the guides.

In operation, the cutter is moved up or down until the desired ligure in the first column on the ticket appears just above the upper slide; the ticket is then torn or separated along the edge of the slide as far as the rst slot in the ticket, after which the second and third columns are similarly severed, the receipt or detached portion being delivered to the person paying fare and the stub portion remaining in the binding until the conductor desires to remove it.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

y A sliding ticket cutter comprising an upper and a lower portion flexibly connected, the upper portion having downwardly turned end guides and the lower portion having upwardly turned end guides, substantially as and for the purpose described.

JAMES D. GIBBS. Witnesses:

C. W. EAKEN, THOMAS H. GREEN. 

